Simpson’s Fish & Chips today (Sunday 18th) became the latest outlet to open at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. The family-owned chippy, which will compete head-on with Subway and KFC, is situated in Town Square unit 9 – next door to Ladbrokes. The business opened it doors at 11:45 today, which will be the regular opening time on all
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Anti-social behaviour in the Manor Farm area of Bradley Stoke is on the agenda of two public meetings taking place in the next ten days. The issue last came to the fore in 2008, when the opening of a pedestrian route from Manor Farm Crescent into the newly-built Willow Brook Centre brought a massive increase in nuisance behaviour. A street
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Bristol’s latest BMX track was opened yesterday (Friday 16th June) in Little Stoke Park [map]. The track, which has been constructed near the basketball goal, was designed with the help of local BMX star Adam Brazil, 18, of Silver Birch Close. It has three straights, two turns and several jumps. Representatives from South Gloucestershire Council, Stoke Gifford Parish Council and
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A Bradley Stoke man has been appointed Vice Chair of a group which advises South Gloucestershire Police on how they can best serve under-represented people. The Independent Advisory Group (IAG) includes representatives from a range of different sections of the community who can face prejudice because of their disability, age, ethnicity, faith or sexual orientation. Sachin Singhal (pictured above, centre),
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A Bradley Stoke Woman has spoken of her “traumatic” experience as she witnessed emergency services responding to a tragic incident at a water park near Cirencester. Clare Bishop says she called the emergency services after a 15-year-old girl was pulled from a lake at Cotswold Water Park on Sunday and stayed on the line for 26 minutes to guide an
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Jon Barr, headteacher at Meadowbrook Primary School in Bradley Stoke, is today quoted by a local paper as praising the benefits of boycotting SATs (national tests) for Year 6 children. According to the Bristol Evening Post, 63% of eligible schools in South Gloucestershire failed to submit test results for 2010 to the Department for Education. The boycotts were backed by
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A Marks and Spencer manager from Bradley Stoke is to join a team cyling from John O’Groats to Lands End to raise money for Help the Heroes. Steve Hewitt, homeware manager at Marks & Spencer, Cribbs Causeway, is taking part in the 1,068 mile ride help the local store reach its target of raising £10,000 for the wounded servicemen’s charity.
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Police have praised a member of the public who reported seeing people acting suspiciously at a house in Bradley Stoke in the early hours today (Monday 12th July). Four men were arrested nearby within 10 minutes of the call. A 28-year-old man and three teenagers aged 18, 17 and 15 remain in police custody. Neighbourhood Sergeant Clive Johnson said: “We
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Conservative campaigners have welcomed today’s re-opening of Bradley Stoke Library after a five-week closure period, during which the library has been extended by around 60 square metres. The extension maintains the large open plan design and enables the whole of the rear of the library to be used for children’s services and create a more dedicated space for this age
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Police say they have stepped up patrols after a spate of vandalism in which 27 cars were damaged in Bradley Stoke in the space of ten days (the Bristol Evening Post reports). Journal readers first heard about the incidents in a reader’s comment on Tuesday, which reported that “rocks/bricks had been thrown through the windows of cars belonging to …
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